Calling Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in need. The clergy must live solely on the free-will offerings…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is her true self only when she exists for humanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The church doesn’t exist to satisfy the religious tastes of its members. Nor does it exist for institutional self-preservation. Nor does it exist to…

— Kelly Bean

If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as…

— David Bosch

Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the…

— Lewis Sperry Chafer

If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.

— Frank W. Boreham

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but…

— Saint Boniface

It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich…

— Billy Sunday

The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however;…

— Christian Smith